Butterfly Walk at Mount Pleasant

Trip leaders: Kevin Heffernan, Linda Hunt, Kathy Litzinger, Woody Merkle
Photographer: Kevin Heffernan		 Date of trip: July 23, 2024
Location: Mount Pleasant Number attending: 32
Details: It was a partly cloudy day with winds of ~7 mph, and a high temperature of 88 degrees. The walk covered the Community Garden, the Cedar Trail, the Old Oak trail to the butterfly garden, the Tulip Poplar trail, the small garden in front of the Gudelsky Center, and the Honors Garden. Note the unusual brownish color of the Juniper Hairstreak.
Mount Pleasant butterfly walk
Sleepy Orange
Mount Pleasant butterfly walk
Mount Pleasant butterfly trop
Mount Pleasant butterfly walk
Mount Pleasant butterfly walk

Least Skipper 3
Peck’s Skipper 2
Sachem 50
Zabulon Skipper: 3
Black Swallowtail 1
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 18
Spicebush Swallowtail 3
Cabbage White: 22
Clouded Sulphur 1

Orange Sulphur: 1
Sleepy Orange: 9
Juniper Hairstreak 5
Gray Hairstreak 4
Eastern Tailed-blue: 10
Summer Azure 1
Pearl Crescent: 1
Common Buckeye 1
Monarch: 1